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President’s Column – September 2025
The rise of the machines? Almost every day we see articles and views on AI and how it’s going to revolutionise all we do. In March this year, Bill Gates …
President’s Column: July 2025
The opening gambit – welcome from the new President. This is my first President’s column and once again I would like to offer my thanks to everyone at the …
President’s Column: The British Steel conundrum
The recent eleventh-hour government intervention at the British Steel plant in Scunthorpe clearly demonstrated two things. First, that it was a perilous …
Are tariffs bad for business?
The USA is the world’s largest importer of steel, counting Canada, Brazil and Mexico as its top three suppliers, and the incumbent President’s view is …
Government needs to back UK steel capability
President’s Column March 2025 The new government initiative to meet with leaders from the UK steel industry to agree a strategy for the long-term future …
President’s Column – Hybrid Working
Being someone who until the UK entered its first lockdown period had spent every working day either in the office or travelling to business meetings, I may not …
President’s Column – Grenfell inquiry
The Phase 2 Report on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry was published in early September 2024 and contains some serious accusations of failings in companies and …
Steelwork sector can help generate Government’s clean energy aspirations
We emerge from our short summer break with a new Government in place who have promised to bring an end to ‘sticking plaster politics’ and meet the …
President’s column: Black box solution
If anyone read the article written by Hugo Rifkind entitled ‘Horizon was ‘computer says no’ on a vast scale’, which was published in The Times …
Presidents Column: February 2024
I recently learned that my very first design office manager, a proud Geordie named Alan Walker, had sadly passed away. He managed the engineering team at …
